. >> well, my dear friend john updike, who's no longer living, was also a person who wrote a good deal. >> yeah. >> and steven king writes a good deal. >> isn't it annoying that people say, oh, that joyce carol oates is so prolific, as if somehow, they're saying by your quantity, you're diminishing your quality. that surely is the implication of some people who say that, don't you think? >> well, it may be. it seems -- it's a focus that seems irrelevant to the actual writer. if you met picasso and said, well, you've done 14 million, you know, little sketches -- >> right. >> -- he would have looked kind of blank. you know, that wasn't the point of his life. >> right. >> or his career, it wasn't in done to quantity, but he was -- he was doing things that were very revolutionary. >> right. >> i think that's the way writers and artists look upon their work. maybe in sort of clusters, like you have an era, an interlude. you're doing these different things. you're not thinking in terms of a quantity of days or hours -- >> you're not checking off boxes, right? >> not at all. >> you didn't sta

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john updike i see you from from the real estate department and joyce hicks from the department of citizen complaints. please, a hand for them too. supervisor kim who represents the mission bay neighborhood and helped usher low the project was not able to attend today but truly wanted to be here. i think she sin new york or somewhere and wanted to extends her appreciation and support for the project and saying a few words on behalf of her is her aid district 6 [inaudible] >> morning everybody's. thank you so much for having me. director neuro. i was told there might actually be action in the street today so thank you for saving until the end. yes, supervisor kim wanted to be here today. this is a very important project for her but also the residents in district 6. the relocation of the southern police station to mission bay recognizes the changing face of this particular neighborhood and the vital roll mission bay plays in growing the city from the thousands of units of housing 28 are affordable to the 30 thousand new jobs being constructed through development projects in the district. a n

john updike once said that world war ii was the 20th century's central myth. he called it a tale of stories. angles are infinite and his central figures never fail to amaze us with their size, and astra talladega. theatrical day our. i believe the narrative historians tru calling is to bring back the dead. i try to do that not only with the outside familiar with the eisenhower's patents of the war but also others who are thus familiar a generous ted roosevelt junior emotion triscuit junior. even amid the clash of army groups my eyes always drawn to the particulars mall tragedy that eliminates the larger catastrophe. so for example, i tell the story of the death of the son of general alexander patch, a young captain named mac patch. i tell it through the letters that general patch and his wife exchange to each other. and they're unspeakably heartbreaking. young captain patch has been wounded in normandie. he's recuperating under his father's command in southern france. his mother writes to general patch, baking her husband not to let him go back into combat tea